<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Bitstream Vera Sans'; font-size:8pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">You probably needed to run something like krandrtray (or the gnome equivalent) to give a tray icon to set resolution, orientation and refresh rate.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>On a side note, even my text console runs at 1440x900 now due to the magic that is kernel modesetting :)<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p><p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>On Sunday 05 April 2009 09:02:12 Roger Cope wrote:<br>
> It was simply that CentOS couldn't reconcile my monitor pixel size and<br>
> my display size. It knew that the monitor was widescreen (1680 x 1050)<br>
> but wouldn't offer that as an available desktop size so I was forced to<br>
> use a slightly larger desktop size and scroll into the corners.<br>
><br>
> I didn't really put any effort into hacking about with the X settings<br>
> because Googling about linux/centos and widescreen monitors brought up a<br>
> 1001 different solutions. I'm sure it would have been fixable eventually<br>
> after breaking X a few times but frankly, it should be fixable in the<br>
> GUI or automagically.<br>
><br>
> Luke Antins wrote:<br>
> > Roger Cope wrote:<br>
> >> Up to version 5.3 and CentOS finally supports my widescreen monitor<br>
> >> properly.<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm curious, what wasn't supported correctly?<br>
> > I would have thought setting the resolution and mayhaps playing with<br>
> > your colour settings too, would be enough for most monitors? :-)<br>
> ><br>
> > Luke<br>
><br>
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